That’s not exactly scalable. There will be no Open Philanthropy grant for providing experiences of epistemic horror to would-be effective altruists.
I will be interested to see what happens with the aftermath of the pandemic; I think a lot of people took EA/rationality more seriously after we seemed to be ahead of the curve / much more reasonable than the ‘official experts’. But I don’t think this has shown up in the 2020 numbers, in part because the pandemic has shut down a lot of the events that would capitalize on that increased seriousness. But maybe now with Biden elected, people will deradicalize / forget the epistemic horror? Unclear.
I will be interested to see what happens with the aftermath of the pandemic; I think a lot of people took EA/rationality more seriously after we seemed to be ahead of the curve / much more reasonable than the ‘official experts’. But I don’t think this has shown up in the 2020 numbers, in part because the pandemic has shut down a lot of the events that would capitalize on that increased seriousness. But maybe now with Biden elected, people will deradicalize / forget the epistemic horror? Unclear.